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From: "Bruce Watt" <>
Subject: Re: [AVG] School records CD lookup
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:34:28 +1000
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Thanks Vee.

I aunt attended Newnemeralla as I have a class photo of her taken in approx
1908.I was trying to identify the other students. Will keep trying.

Regards

Bruce Watt
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From: "Vee" <>
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Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AVG] School records CD lookup


> Hi Bruce
> Neither town is included
> Regards
> Vee
>
> Bruce Watt <> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can anyone advise if either fiche or cd includes both Newnmerella or
> Orbost
> schools in the period say 1910 thru 1925.
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
> Bruce Watt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vee"
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [AVG] School records CD lookup
>
>
>> Hi Linda
>> I checked the microfiche for the East Gippsland Schools and the only Eva
>> Smith I could find was:
>> Eva.F.Smith b.17 Apr 1926 - attended Briagalong School 12 Oct 1931.
>> There are listings of students at Stratford but as the microfiche states,
>> not all records are complete
>> Hope this helps
>> Vee
>>
>> Linda Barraclough wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I am wondering if there is anyone out there with the school records CD
>> issued by the East Gippsland Family History group who can do a quick
>> lookup
>> for me???
>>
>> I am looking for Eva Mavis SMITH, who thinks she went to school at
>> Stratford in the 1920s while her father was working for the State Rivers
>> and Water Supply Commission while making "irrigation drains". She
>> remembers
>> living in a tent town.
>>
>> I rather suspect she was more likely to have been at Heyfield or
>> Glenmaggie
>> (the weir was started in 1919, high water in 1926). I'm not totally sure
>> where the workers who made the channels lived, but I would have thought
>> Heyfield area, where the later camp was - when they raised the level of
>> the
>> weir wall in 1956, and extra channels were made.
>>
>> So, in summary:
>>
>> Is Eva Mavis SMITH on the CD?
>>
>> Does the CD include the Stratford Primary School???? I think from memory
>> it
>> doesn't include Heyfield (and definitely not the Glenmaggie Dam school),
>> but I would appreciate confirmation, so I know where to suggest the
>> enquirer goes next.
>>
>> (And anyone who can throw further light on this would be appreciated -
>> her
>> father was Thomas Victor SMITH)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Linda
>>
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